Oh jeez, I'm not the only one who has listened to hundreds of hours of Ricky, Karl and the dreamy S'merch whilst drifting off to sleep? Is there a meetup? I felt so in-the-know when the Ricky Gervais Show came to HBO and everyone was like, "is that Karl fella for real?"

As a New Yorker, I hear ya. Giuliani was "great" after 9/11. No, he did what any political leader would be expected to do. Same with Christie. We're supposed to be surprised that he actually did what he had to do to get aid for his state. It is the bare MINIMUM.

I had the same problem when I moved to the Midwest for graduate school. Coming from Brooklyn, I was so used to people just telling me what was on their mind (and not being offended by it—it's faster and avoids confusion), that I was totally gobsmacked to discover what I had mistaken for friendly overtures was…

Aralyn and Izzy! Reminds me of my then 3 year old niece in her stroller belting out Paint It Black, but having changed the color to pink.

Exactly.

My brother used to pick them up when he traveled for work and give them to his then-fiancee's (now wife) 5-year-old kid. Her bed was packed with them—all played with. Occasionally we'd tease her that she wasn't allowed to play with them, but she loved those little guys pretty hard.

I was making this very argument the other day. He's a jerk, but he's seldom wrong about the direction in which the culture is moving.

Peggy reminds me of almost every baby-boomer female boss I had in the 1980s and 1990s. They were much tougher on women that chose to also have families along with a job (no problem with the men who were fathers).

Cool! I saw your poster and thought it was awesome.

Something something, Budweiser is terrible, something, butt.

Don't forget to get it signed though-adds to its value as a collectible!

When my brother and his wife got married, they specified no presents as they were both grownups (27 & 34 years old) combining two households and didn't really need anything. I'd like to interrupt myself here to say that neither of them had any money to speak of, one a stage actress, the other just getting out of a…

Back in my powerlifting days, my friends and I would go out and they would pick the biggest guy in the place and bet him a round that I could pick him up. The secret with powerlifting is, unless you are in the ultra heavyweight class, there is really no reason to suspect that a female athlete is as strong as she is…

I saw the original Off-Off-Broadway production of Hedwig with Mitchell in the title role and it was awesome. I will move heaven and earth to see NPH in a revival.

I call Poe! This is obviously written by some highly enlightened man (or woman) in an effort to clearly mark and weed out boys who read PUA manuals, much like Ed Hardy shirts were the scarlet letter of douchebags, so that worthwhile men could clear the room of these dicks and have a nice interaction with women.

Feminist politics aside, that looks really itchy!!!! I can't even wear wool pants because I would spend my entire day scratching. This just makes me squirm.

As Laura said, pretty standard for NYC. Boarding my dog used to cost $40 per day. I rarely left town for more than a long weekend.

I know several recent studies have shown that male fetuses are less likely to come to term when there are environmental stresses (poor food supply, natural disaster, etc.) and that male infants are more likely to suffer from birth defects (because in females, having two X chromosomes means that if there is a harmful…

I don't have a problem with retouching a photo if it is to correct artifacts of the photographic process (weird shadows, color balance off, etc.), but changing the actual shape of the model has gone a bit too far.

This was great (just watched it at my desk, pretending to do other work).